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nasai:4494Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Khālid > Ibn ʿAwn > Muḥammad > Anas > Nuhīnā

"It was forbidden to us for a town-dweller to sell for a desert-dweller." (Sahih )  

النسائي:٤٤٩٤أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ نُهِينَا

أَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
bukhari:2161Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Muʿādh > Ibn ʿAwn > Muḥammad > Anas b. Mālik Nuhīnā

We were forbidden that a town dweller should sell goods of a desert dweller.  

البخاري:٢١٦١حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذٌ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ ؓ نُهِينَا

أَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ  

bukhari:2162Muḥammad b. Bashhār > ʿAbd al-Wahhāb > ʿUbaydullāh > Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd > Abū Hurayrah

The Prophet ﷺ forbade the meeting (of caravans) on the way and the selling of goods by an inhabitant of the town on behalf of a desert dweller.  

البخاري:٢١٦٢حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ

نَهَى النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنِ التَّلَقِّي وَأَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ  

muslim:1523aYaḥyá b. Yaḥyá > Hushaym > Yūnus > Ibn Sīrīn > Anas b. Mālik > Nuhīnā

We were forbidden that a townsman should sell for a man of the desert, even if he is his brother or father.  

مسلم:١٥٢٣aوَحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ نُهِينَا

أَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ وَإِنْ كَانَ أَخَاهُ أَوْ أَبَاهُ  

muslim:1523bMuḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Ibn Abū ʿAdī > Ibn ʿAwn > Muḥammad > Anasḥ > Ibn al-Muthanná > Muʿādh > Ibn ʿAwn > Muḥammad > Anas b. Mālik Nuhīnā

We were forbidden that a townsman should sell for a man of the desert.  

مسلم:١٥٢٣bحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَوْنٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذٌ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ نُهِينَا

عَنْ أَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ  

nasai:4493Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Sālim b. Nūḥ > Yūnus > Muḥammad b. Sīrīn > Anas b. Mālik > Nuhīnā

"It was forbidden to us for a town-dweller to sell for a desert-dweller, even if he was his father or brother." (Sahih )  

النسائي:٤٤٩٣أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَالِمُ بْنُ نُوحٍ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا يُونُسُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ نُهِينَا

أَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ وَإِنْ كَانَ أَخَاهُ أَوْ أَبَاهُ  

ibnmajah:2175Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > al-Zuhrī > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab > Abū Hurayrah

"A City-dweller should not sell for a Bedouin."  

ابن ماجة:٢١٧٥حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ لاَ يَبِيعُ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ  

ahmad:9222ʿAlī b. Isḥāq > ʿAbdullāh > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar > Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Abū Hurayrah

the Messenger of Allah forbade artificially inflating prices, meeting traders on the way, and for a town-dweller to sell for a desert-dweller." (Sahih ) (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4497)   

أحمد:٩٢٢٢حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ نَهَى عَنِ التَّلَقِّي وَأَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ  

ahmad:7312Sufyān > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] Narrated by the Prophet ﷺ, "A seller should not sell to a buyer who is present for someone else."  

أحمد:٧٣١٢حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ لَا يَبِيعُ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ  

ahmad:10366Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Hishām > Muḥammadʿan Abū Hurayrah

The Prophet ﷺ said, "No town-dweller should sell for a bedouin. Do not practice Najsh (i.e. Do not offer a high price for a thing which you do not want to buy, in order to deceive the people). No Muslim should offer more for a thing already bought by his Muslim brother, nor should he demand the hand of a girl already engaged to another Muslim. A Muslim woman shall not try to bring about The divorce of her sister (i.e. another Muslim woman) in order to take her place herself." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2723)  

أحمد:١٠٣٦٦حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لَا يَبِيعُ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ  

ahmad:10235Wakīʿ > Sufyān > Ṣāliḥ a freed slave of al-Tawʾamah > Abū Hurayrah

"A City-dweller should not sell for a Bedouin." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2175)   

أحمد:١٠٢٣٥حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ صَالِحٍ مَوْلَى التَّوْأَمَةِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا يَبِعْ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ  

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ الْحَاضِرَ قَدْ زُجِرَ عَنْ أَنْ يَبِيعَ لِلْبَادِي وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ بِالْمُهَاجِرِ

ibnhibban:4962Abū Yaʿlá > ʿAlī b. al-Jaʿd > Ṣakhr b. Jūwayriyah > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited selling a product that is not in the possession of the seller and said, "Do not engage in present transactions."  

ابن حبّان:٤٩٦٢أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو يَعْلَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْجَعْدِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا صَخْرُ بْنُ جُوَيْرِيَةَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ وَقَالَ «لَا تَلَقُّوا الْبُيُوعَ»  

tabarani:10923[Chain 1] Muʿādh b. al-Muthanná > Musaddad [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥaḍramī > Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr al-Muqaddamī > ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād > Maʿmar > Ibn Ṭāwus from his father > Ibn ʿAbbās ؓ ā

The riders (carrying merchandise) should not be met in the way, and townsman should not sell for a man of the desert. The narrator reported. I said to Ibn 'Abbas: What do these words really imply-" The townsman for the man of the desert"? He said: That he should work as a broker on his behalf. (Using translation from Muslim 1521)  

الطبراني:١٠٩٢٣حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى ثنا مُسَدَّدٌ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْمُقَدَّمِيُّ قَالَا ثنا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ طَاوُسٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ

«نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ يُتَلَقَّى الرُّكْبَانُ وَأَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ»  

tabarani:6930Muʿādh b. al-Muthanná > ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī > ʿAbdullāh b. Nājiyah > Shabāb al-ʿUṣfurī > Muʿādh b. Hishām from my father > Maṭar al-Warrāq > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

The Prophet ﷺ said, "No town-dweller should sell for a bedouin. Do not practice Najsh (i.e. Do not offer a high price for a thing which you do not want to buy, in order to deceive the people). No Muslim should offer more for a thing already bought by his Muslim brother, nor should he demand the hand of a girl already engaged to another Muslim. A Muslim woman shall not try to bring about The divorce of her sister (i.e. another Muslim woman) in order to take her place herself." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2723)  

الطبراني:٦٩٣٠حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمَدِينِيِّ وَحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ نَاجِيَةَ ثنا شَبَابٌ الْعُصْفُرِيُّ قَالَا ثنا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ مَطَرٍ الْوَرَّاقِ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا يَبِعْ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ»  

tabarani:13545aMuḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn Ibn b. Rishdīn b. Saʿd al-Miṣrī

The Prophet ﷺ said, "No town-dweller should sell for a bedouin. Do not practice Najsh (i.e. Do not offer a high price for a thing which you do not want to buy, in order to deceive the people). No Muslim should offer more for a thing already bought by his Muslim brother, nor should he demand the hand of a girl already engaged to another Muslim. A Muslim woman shall not try to bring about The divorce of her sister (i.e. another Muslim woman) in order to take her place herself." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2723)  

الطبراني:١٣٥٤٥aحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ابْنُ بِنْتِ رِشْدِينَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْمِصْرِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجُعْفِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْمُحَيَّاةِ يَحْيَى بْنُ يَعْلَى عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا يَبِعْ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ»  

tabarani:13545bMuḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn Ibn b. Rishdīn b. Saʿd al-Miṣrī

The Prophet ﷺ said, "No town-dweller should sell for a bedouin. Do not practice Najsh (i.e. Do not offer a high price for a thing which you do not want to buy, in order to deceive the people). No Muslim should offer more for a thing already bought by his Muslim brother, nor should he demand the hand of a girl already engaged to another Muslim. A Muslim woman shall not try to bring about The divorce of her sister (i.e. another Muslim woman) in order to take her place herself." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2723)  

الطبراني:١٣٥٤٥bحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ابْنُ بِنْتِ رِشْدِينَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْمِصْرِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجُعْفِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْمُحَيَّاةِ يَحْيَى بْنُ يَعْلَى عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا يَبِعْ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ»  

tabarani:13545cMuḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn Ibn b. Rishdīn b. Saʿd al-Miṣrī

The Prophet ﷺ said, "No town-dweller should sell for a bedouin. Do not practice Najsh (i.e. Do not offer a high price for a thing which you do not want to buy, in order to deceive the people). No Muslim should offer more for a thing already bought by his Muslim brother, nor should he demand the hand of a girl already engaged to another Muslim. A Muslim woman shall not try to bring about The divorce of her sister (i.e. another Muslim woman) in order to take her place herself." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2723)  

الطبراني:١٣٥٤٥cحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ابْنُ بِنْتِ رِشْدِينَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْمِصْرِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجُعْفِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْمُحَيَّاةِ يَحْيَى بْنُ يَعْلَى عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا يَبِعْ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ»  

tabarani:13545dMuḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn Ibn b. Rishdīn b. Saʿd al-Miṣrī

The Prophet ﷺ said, "No town-dweller should sell for a bedouin. Do not practice Najsh (i.e. Do not offer a high price for a thing which you do not want to buy, in order to deceive the people). No Muslim should offer more for a thing already bought by his Muslim brother, nor should he demand the hand of a girl already engaged to another Muslim. A Muslim woman shall not try to bring about The divorce of her sister (i.e. another Muslim woman) in order to take her place herself." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2723)  

الطبراني:١٣٥٤٥dحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ابْنُ بِنْتِ رِشْدِينَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْمِصْرِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجُعْفِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْمُحَيَّاةِ يَحْيَى بْنُ يَعْلَى عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا يَبِعْ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ»  

tabarani:13545eMuḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn Ibn b. Rishdīn b. Saʿd al-Miṣrī

The Prophet ﷺ said, "No town-dweller should sell for a bedouin. Do not practice Najsh (i.e. Do not offer a high price for a thing which you do not want to buy, in order to deceive the people). No Muslim should offer more for a thing already bought by his Muslim brother, nor should he demand the hand of a girl already engaged to another Muslim. A Muslim woman shall not try to bring about The divorce of her sister (i.e. another Muslim woman) in order to take her place herself." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2723)  

الطبراني:١٣٥٤٥eحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ابْنُ بِنْتِ رِشْدِينَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْمِصْرِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجُعْفِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْمُحَيَّاةِ يَحْيَى بْنُ يَعْلَى عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا يَبِعْ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ»  

nasai-kubra:6041Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Khālid > Ibn ʿAwn > Muḥammad > Anas b. Mālik > Nuhīnā

We were forbidden that a town dweller should sell goods of a desert dweller. (Using translation from Bukhārī 2161)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٦٠٤١أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ «§نُهِينَا

أَنْ يَبِيعَ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ»